Projects How many of y'all wear rubber gloves when working??

If and when I do go, I hope it's in my sleep....

 

Watched a YouTube video on the making of Wizard of Oz. Buddy Ebsen was the first Tin Man but was hospitalized from inhaling aluminum dust used to tone his face. They fired him and hired Jack Haley for the part. He too got sick from aluminum poisoning too but they finished the shoot. Then for snow scenes, they blew in powdered asbestos which is very convincing snow. The Wicked Witch of the West actress was caught on fired during a scene where she disappears is a poof of red smoke. Seems her hat and cloak were very flammable. She was hospitalized for a couple weeks which slowed production. She had 3rd degree burns on her head and face and hands. They put her still wounded hands in green gloves to finish shooting. They had a stand-in do a retake of the red poof scene and caught her on fire too.

 

And women regularly soak their fingers in acetone (basis of lacquer thinner) to remove nail polish. Go figure.

 

No gloves for me... I can’t work like that, too old to change . Machinists at work use them but usually the younger guys. But I don’t wash my hands in chemicals either.I try to keep my cars clean but those FEs just ooze oil and grease!

 

Hello,

We have worked with a ton of chemicals and gasoline products as teens. But, gloves were not part of the regiment. The only person wearing gloves was my mom while doing dishes and cleaning the kitchen with her chemicals. For us, we were tough teenagers without a clue and plus, if I was going to drop a small nut down to the floor, I could blame the gloves with no touch or feel. So, my brother and I never wore gloves.

One exception, when we both learned to gas weld and cut metal with a torch, we wore “welding” gloves. But, we were not doing finite things like small nuts and bolts or springs, pins, etc. To keep the sparking metal blobs off of our hands, welding gloves were a necessity.

Jnaki

Later on, after high school, if we were going to a family function or had to dress up, but a car project was happening in the morning, my wife told me to wear one of the large dishwashing gloves to keep the oil and grime out of my fingernails/cuticles. Presentation is everything with family and hot rods. We were already a chuckle or two, for driving an old 327 powered 1940 Ford Sedan Delivery to most of our family events.

One thing we would have liked is to have stock in the latex rubber glove industry back then and definitely, now. Every time we used to go to the dentist, a glove gets put on and taken off for the x-ray, then the technician puts on a glove set for cleaning, but if there is a wait period for some reason or other, the gloves come off and when she continues, another set comes back in place.

Then the dentist and his assistant wear gloves. She does the gathering and if she has to go out to the office or somewhere, she takes off the gloves and when she returns, puts on another set. So, do you see where there is a zillion dollar industry going on here?

Now most mechanics we see wear gloves and not just one pair during the work day. The stock would have easily doubled and tripled over those times when gloves were just for washing dishes by housewives. And, not for a couple of growing teenage kids with a hot rod build on their “dainty” hands.

At the time, Lava Soap was the main cleaning item. We also used our mom’s Boraxo for deeper cleaning and finally, we tried some smelly goopy stuff from our local mechanic’s shop. The goopy stuff worked, but made our hands smell like a gasoline product. Still, there was no need for gloves back then…

These days there are many different hand cleaners. Back in our 327 1940 sedan delivery days, a product called Amway LOC was a gentle, but powerful hand cleaner and surface cleaner all rolled into one product. If there was extra grime, a spray foam can of a more powerful cleaner from Amway was always sitting on our shelf. It was so strong, but gentle enough to clean off tar blobs off of feet from the beaches of Santa Barbara/Goleta, CA many times over.

 

All this without gloves and Buddy lived to the ripe old age of 95, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger !